All the new Cabinet members, in cluding the Prime Minister, Baron Hiranuma, wore frock coats yesterday evening when their investiture took place at the Imperial Court. This was Hike first time that this form of dress had been Used at an investiture since 1023, when the Yamamoto Cabinet was organized, the day after the great earthquake of September 1.
Following their investiture, mem-Juers of the new Cabinet assembled at the oMelal residence of the Prime: [Minister and toasted the occasion with ice wine, instead of champagne.
The average age Of the new Cabinet 87, three years older than that of the Konoye Cabinet—Reuter.
Tokyo, Jan. 4.
Miss Helen Keller, famous. blind, deaf, and mute American woman, will soon receive a second "barkless dog" from the Japanese policeman, Mr. Tehiro Ogasawara, of Akita Prefecture, to replace one given to her om her visit {o Japan two years ago. The first one, named Kamikaze, became her constant companion. When died a short time ago it left the American woman disconsolate, reports reaching here said, 'A friend of Miss Keller wrote to Mr, Wilfred Fleisher, managing editor the "Japan Advertiser," asking him to help locate a similar dog. After investigation, "Mr. Flelsher " learned that Kamikaze had been presented to Miss Keller by the policeman, Ogasa wata, an instructor of fencing at a police training school. 'The "latter, informed of Kamikaze's death, im= mediately offered to donate' the brother-dog, Kenzan, to Miss Keller. When Miss Keller was informed by cable of Mr. Oyasawara's second gift to her, she declared: "It Is too marvelous, I am too overcome for words," the "Japan Advertiser" reported Domei.
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